Ridley
Scott returns to the universe he created in “Alien” with “Alien:
Covenant”, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with
“Prometheus” and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work
of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the
galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they
think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous
world -- whose sole inhabitant is the "synthetic" David
(Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

In
recent interviews, Ridley Scott revealed that in “Alien: Covenant”,
he explored into the origins of the xenomorphs, and that the movie
touches on mortality, immortality and the higher power who created
humans and the universe. “We did Prometheus – that heaved it off
the ground, and Covenant is a follow-through to Prometheus. We now
know who created this, and why, and the next one’s a joining up of
the storyline,” says Scott.

Both
Prometheus and Covenant are inspired by Scott’s personal beliefs
about where we came from: “We’re not just a random biological
accident, for you and I to be sitting here right now [by accident]
would take trillions of correct decisions made randomly by nature,
which of course is ridiculous. I think there’s some kind of
decision being made. I believe in a higher force – if we want to
call it God, then it’s God.”

Scott
further revealed in his Vanity Fair interview about the opening scene
in “Alien: Covenant”, “We start Covenant with a really clever
prologue that settles—once and for all—who David really is.”
The sequence begins on a “big beautiful blue eye—you see every
vein” and over that shot audiences will hear footsteps approach.
“How do you feel?” a voice asks. “Alive,” the owner of the
eye responds. Scott explains that the prologue reveals Guy Pearce’s
Prometheus character, Peter Weyland, as a younger, 40-year-old man
whom the newly-born David calls “father.” Scott promises this
sequence will “really get people going because it’s fucking smart
for a change.”

“Alien:
Covenant” opens May 10 in theaters nationwide from
20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.